Inlet Formation and Evolution of the Sediment Bypassing System: New Inlet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 290-299

  Fitzgerald, Duncan M ^a   Pendleton, Elizabeth ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Cod; hydraulics; spit breaching; tidal inlet processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979648590     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/1551-5036-36.sp1.290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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